She Kills Monsters
The playwright of She Kills Monsters
What is Qui Nguyen
This vocabulary word refers to the category of a play or musical according to type
What is genre
The goal of the this great acting teacher's approach is for the actor to not focus on themselves and instead concentrate on the other actors in the immediate environment.
What is Sanford Meisner
This element of a monologue refers to a reason that the character opens up in this moment: a need to share, a need to reveal, a need to explain.
What is The Need to Speak
This part of Play Analysis focuses on analyzing the characters in the play, their purpose, and identifying the protagonist, antagonist, and secondary characters.
What is Character Analysis
The plot of She Kills Monsters follows this sister on her journey to understanding who her younger sister truly was.
What is Agnes
This word refers to the time, place, and contextual information that makes up the world of the play.
What is given circumstances
This great acting teacher focused a lot on text analysis, emphasizing that actors must learn to analyze the text for key elements that dictate the character’s nature.
What is Stella Adler
The word monologue comes from this greek word
What is Monologos
Vocabulary word meaning “unknotting”; the resolution of the conflicts that made up the rising action.
What is denouement
The setting of She Kills Monsters takes place in this town
What is Athens, Ohio
The part of the play that provides important background information to the audience; it often happens at the beginning of the play.
What is Exposition
This great acting teacher created the Method System.
What is Lee Strasberg
Timothee Chalamet performed a monologue in this show, where he questions why he is always waiting to feel seen.
What is The Prodigal Son
The vocabulary term referring to the main character.
What is the protagonist
The playwright of She Kills Monsters based many characters off of real people. This character was the inspiration for SKM and greatly impacted the author.
The catalyst for the play’s action. It may take the form of an idea or action on the part of the main character, or it may occur through some external force imposed upon a character.
What is the Inciting Incident
This acting system employs techniques in which actors attempt to inhabit the psyche of their character, sometimes for long periods, to facilitate realistic behavior under imaginary circumstances.
What is method acting
This element of a monologue refers to what language they use, the pace at which they talk, how they convey their story (with run-on sentences, or with fits and starts)?
What is a specific character voice
A concrete image used to represent something abstract, such as a concept or idea.
What is a symbol, or symbolism
Tilly was in love with this character, but Agnes didn't know until she encountered the two in the D&D world Tilly created.
What is Lilith, or Lili.
Complications and discoveries which create conflict; makes up the middle part of the play.
What is rising action
This famous acting teacher taught actors to put themselves in the characters' shoes and consider what they would do if they were in the character’s situation. The magic if makes the character’s motivations the same as the actor’s.
What is Konstantin Stanislavski
In her monologue from the movie Ladybird, Saoirse Ronan calls her parents and leaves a voicemail at the end of the movie. She starts her voicemail off saying her _______, saying, "It's a good _______. It's the ______ you gave me."
What is a name
The person, situation, or inner conflict in opposition to the main character’s goals.
What is the antagonist